We have a great Sunday planned – our high school youth are
leading the service, and our classes will be buzzing with activity. Check out
the details below!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. MARCH
10th SERVICE:
Next Sunday is a multigenerational service, led by Nick Page, and it sounds
like it’ll be loads of fun! He will engage us with music and singing for all
ages. Children ages 6 weeks to 5 years can stay in the service with families,
or go to the Nursery or to our Story Time class (ages 3-5). All other children
and youth will remain in the service.
2. CRAFTS
AND COFFEE: Join
us on Friday mornings in the church library (3rd floor) from 10-12
to visit, enjoy your coffee, and help to create crafts to be used in the RE
program. Babies and children are invited! Contact Stina Lane-Cummings (stina@kempf.com) or Betsy Lowry (dre@wsuu.org).
THIS WEEK:
Story
Time: This
week our children will share a story and snack together. Please let the
teachers in the class know if your child has a food allergy.
Spirit
Play: This week's story is called "The Anteater and the
Fox", and it is based in our Second Promise, Our Orange Promise: Offer
Fair and Kind Treatment to all. This story is about a fox who invites an anteater
to have tea. The anteater isn't the best guest, and the fox must figure out how
to treat him.
Kindergarten
through Second Grade: “Wonderful Welcome”:
This
week’s session introduces the intangible gift of helping, and teaches children
that they can help people they have never met, as well as people they know.
While helping is an intangible gift, helping produces tangible results. Many
organizations raise funds and offer assistance in many forms to people all over
the world. Heifer International provides tangible help in the form of animals,
and engages families in sustainable agricultural enterprise. Recipients help
their families by feeding their children and selling the animal's milk, eggs,
or wool, and also help their neighbors by sharing the animal's offspring.
Our
children will learn that when we help people, we affirm our seventh Principle,
the interdependent web of all existence. We are all connected — to each other,
to animals and to the Earth. Helping also affirms our first Principle, that each
person is important, including people we may never meet, and our second
Principle, that we work for peace and justice in our world.
Third
through Fifth Grades: “Love Will Guide Us”:
This week in the Love Will Guide Us curriculum, the class
will explore our fifth Unitarian Universalist Source, “Humanist teachings which counsel us to heed the guidance of reason and
the results of science, and warn us against idolatries of the mind and
spirit." They will consider the difference between facts, theories and beliefs,
and what can be proved to be true (science) or what we believe to be true.
Middle
School: This
week, our middle school class will sit together in two front pews for our
youth-led service. We’ll stay through the sermon, which will be given by three
of our youth, and then we’ll head into our classroom. We’re voting on our
interests for a social justice project we will develop as a class. If anyone is
absent this Sunday, they will be able to vote through email.
We will also talk about what our MS youth want to do as a youth
group for fun this spring. And we have two opportunities for upcoming music and
theatrical fun in our services – join our new band, and act in a skit!
High
School: “Our Name is Earl”:
This week our youth are leading the service! Our next class will be March 17th, and
the teachers have added a youth class for March 24th so we’ll meet
twice this month. Mark your calendars!
Youth Group will meet in the Social Hall from 6:30pm to
8:30pm tonight, starting with time to eat Pho together. Shelby and Cole will be
advising this week, and Betsy will visit. We’ll start with some processing of
the service, and then we’ll be talking about some immediate priorities,
including:
·
A
space for the youth in our building
·
Visiting
other youth groups
·
Spring
Con
·
Our
Orion Center work
·
Getting
the YAC going
·
A
youth band that’s starting at WSUU this spring
Hope to see everyone there!
See you Sunday!
Betsy
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